Senior AI Solutions Architect

About the role

PHINIA: Advancing sustainability today, powering a cleaner tomorrow. PHINIA is an independent, market-leading, premium solutions and components provider with over 100 years of manufacturing expertise and industry relationships, with a strong brand portfolio that includes DELPHI®, DELCO REMY® and HARTRIDGE™. With over 12,500 employees across 43 locations in 20 countries, PHINIA is headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA. At PHINIA, we Provide fuel systems, electrical systems, and aftermarket products and solutions of the highest quality - developed and manufactured responsibly - that are designed to enhance efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of vehicles, industrial machinery, and other applications. In doing so, we contribute to a cleaner tomorrow, treat our people and surrounding communities with respect, and hold ourselves accountable to robust ethical standards. Our Culture PHINIA promotes and cultivates an inclusive culture and diverse perspectives, strives to maintain its reputation for excellence, thrives on the power of collaboration, and fosters the development of our talented employees. We believe in making a positive impact through our business and actions, and we take our collective responsibility seriously. Career Opportunities We believe in building a brighter tomorrow for our employees as well as our customers and encourage you to learn about our long history, strong culture, new technologies, and future vision. We offer a strong local presence and interesting global opportunities. Join us on this shared journey toward a brighter tomorrow. JOB PURPOSE Senior candidates would be expected to provide technical leadership of a component or subsystem within an internally developed AI platform, driving quality and best practices while mentoring junior team members. You will be expected to demonstrate technical authority for specific domains such as backend services, system integration, or frontend experience. Junior candidates should also consider themselves for this role as a function of their demonstrable expertise, rather than professional tenure or experience.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Own technical direction for assigned components; make design decisions within scope
• Architecture: Design full feature and component-level architectures; contribute to system-wide architectural discussions
• Complex Development: Lead development of complex features spanning an internally developed AI IDE consisting of frontend, backend and related databases
• Integration Ownership: Lead AI IDE as well as specific engineering systems (e.g., calibration tools, dyno data systems) integration efforts
• Quality: Lead comprehensive testing strategies development implementation; test strategy library maintenance and actively contribute to code reviews
• Mentoring: Coach and develop Junior Engineers and Engineers; conduct thorough code reviews
• DevOps: Design and implement CI/CD pipelines; establish deployment best practices
• Technical Support: Handle L3 escalations; contribute to root cause analysis

Requirements

• LLM integration and prompt engineering experience
• Enterprise system integration (APIs, ETL, middleware)
• Windows deployment and/or Containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Electron desktop application development and Blue-Green deployment
• Automotive engineering domain knowledge (ECU, calibration, test systems)
• AI Chat Interface architecture and extension development
• Tenacity to work through challenging problems independently
• Willingness to seek council and support with challenging problems
• Ability to keep an open mind
• Education & Experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related Engineering discipline (Master's desirable)
• 4 to 5 years professional software development experience (Full Stack Desirable)
• Strong proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript/JavaScript and/or Svelte and/or Electron
• Strong proficiency in modern and AI databases, REST APIs, and version control (Git)
• Demonstrable experience with system design and architecture
• CI/CD pipeline design and implementation experience
• Track record of mentoring and developing others (desirable)
• Strong problem-solving aptitude, eagerness to learn and strong inquisitive nature
• Critical thinker with a 'can do!' mindset
• AI Augmentation Expectation
• This role fundamentally operates with AI augmentation. The engineer will leverage AI assistants as a force multiplier for and chart new territory in coding, debugging, research, and documentation, enabling delivery scope typically requiring a larger team and more highly skilled engineers.

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